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Arduino robot (visual)
Learn robotics with visual programming with a real robot based on a popular Arduino robotics platform
- Codeide
- Real-time labs
- University & College
- Middle School
- High School
- Elementary
Laboratory information
Arduino Robot laboratory lets you carry out experiments with a real robot. Define the robot's logic through a blocks-based language (Blockly), and then upload your program into the robot to see its behaviour through a web camera. You can make your robot avoid walls, compete in line-following races, or any other type of exercise. If you prefer to learn using code, you can with the code version.
What students do
Operate real equipment and reason from the measurements.
- Recommended level
- University & College, Middle School, High School, Elementary
- Typical access model
- Codeide, Real-time labs
- Works on
- Modern web browsers on school, university, and home computers.
- Teaching use
- Suitable for assignments, demonstrations, LMS-linked activities, and remote practical work.
Video
Available experiments
Use the real laboratory from the browser.
Teaching resources
Public laboratory contents
Exercise 2 - Movement and following routes
Activity to learn how to make the robot move (Test) and follow fixed paths.
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A simple introductory activity to programming and robotics in which students learn how to use basic visual blocks for robot movement, and learn how to make the robot follow certain fixed paths which include turning.
Exercise 3 - Buttons, LEDs and conditionals
Activity to learn how to make conditionals that rely on button presses and use LEDs as outputs.
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This is a slightly more advanced activity than Exercise 2, in which students can start using basic peripherals: they can learn how to detect button presses and react to them using conditionals. They will also learn how to use the LEDs as outputs.
Exercise 4 - Variables and conditionals
Activity to learn how to use variables to control the behaviour
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In this activity students learn how to use variables to remember the state of the robot and implement more complex logic. This activity assumes that students already know how to make the robot move and how to use simple conditionals, which is learned in previous activities.
Educational Robotics Teaching Unit LabsLand
Activities (complete course) designed to gain knowledge of basic robotics.
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Robot control activities are developed that cumulatively use the different tools provided by programming languages.
The following content is included:
- Knowledge of a robot and basic fundamentals of robotics
- Remote laboratory interface
- Algorithms and flowcharts
- First program of our remote lab: moving the robot
- LED unit
- Loops
- Infrared sensors
- Conditions
- Variables
- Functions
- Line-following robot
- Labyrinths in robotics
In each activity, the corresponding specific contents are specified.